Ezekiel 27:8
Good News Translation
Your oarsmen were from the cities of Sidon and Arvad. Your own skillful men were the sailors.

New Revised Standard Version
The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; skilled men of Zemer were within you, they were your pilots.

Contemporary English Version
Men from Sidon and Arvad did the rowing, and your own skilled workers were the captains.

New American Bible
Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen; Your own sages, Tyre, were on board, serving as your sailors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots.

Zidon

Genesis 10:15 And Chanaan begot Sidon his firstborn, the Hethite,

Sidon

Genesis 49:13 Zabulon shall dwell on the seashore, and in the road of ships, reaching as far as Sidon.

Joshua 11:8 And the Lord delivered them into the hands of Israel. And they defeated them, and chased them as far as the great Sidon and the waters of Maserophot, and the field of Masphe, which is on the east thereof. He slew them all, so as to leave no remains of them:

Arvad

Ezekiel 27:11 The men of Arad were with thy army upon thy walls round about: the Pygmeans also that were in thy towers, hung up their quivers on thy walls round about: they perfected thy beauty.

Genesis 10:18 And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the Hamathite: and afterwards the families of the Chanaanites were spread abroad.

Isaiah 10:9 Are not my princes as so many kings? is not Calano as Charcamis: and Emath as Arphad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Jeremiah 49:23 Against Damascus. Emath is confounded and Arphad: for they have heard very bad tidings, they are troubled as in the sea: through care they could not rest.

wise

Ezekiel 27:28 Thy fleets shall be troubled at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

1 Kings 5:6 Give orders, therefore, that thy servants cut me down cedar trees, out of Libanus, and let my servants be with thy servants: and I will give thee the hire of thy servants whatsoever thou wilt ask: for thou knowest how there is not among my people a man that has skill to hew wood like to the Sidonians.

1 Kings 9:27 And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

2 Chronicles 2:13,14 I therefore have sent thee my father Hiram, a wise and most skilful man, . . .

Context
A Lament for Tyre
7Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made thy covering. 8The inhabitants of Sidon, and the Arabians were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were thy pilots.9The ancients of Gebal, and the wise men thereof furnished mariners for the service of thy various furniture: all the ships of the sea, and their mariners were thy factors.…
Cross References
Genesis 10:18
And the Aradian, the Samarite, and the Hamathite: and afterwards the families of the Chanaanites were spread abroad.

1 Kings 9:27
And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

1 Chronicles 1:16
And the Aradian, and the Samarite, and the Hamathite.

Ezekiel 27:11
The men of Arad were with thy army upon thy walls round about: the Pygmeans also that were in thy towers, hung up their quivers on thy walls round about: they perfected thy beauty.

Ezekiel 28:21
Son of man, set thy face against Sidon: and thou shalt prophesy of it,

Ezekiel 27:7
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